Mad Dog 20/40

The Rifling in Your Pistol Barrel is Retarded And so is the reason it exists. We all know rifling improves a weapon's accuracy by gyroscopically stabilizing the bullet. That advantage becomes measurable at 50 yards, and important at 100 yards. Do you see the problem? If you expect to hit targets at 100 yards with a 3-inch barrel, then you have either a great deal of pistol experience, or very little. Some men are thinking, "My hollowpoint won't expand if it tumbles!" I'm pretty sure no women are thinking that. Setting aside the question of whether tumbling is good or bad, a smoothbore pistol bullet won't start to tumble until beyond 25 yards. Do you expect to fire your concealed carry pistol at a target 25 yards distant? At this point, some men will spring into action to point out that the chance is not EXACTLY zero. There was that one time a guy made a miraculous 40-yard shot! What if his bullet had tumbled? Then the hollowpoints might not have expanded! IMO, rifling the barrel of a self-defense weapon is absurd. It adds expense, it adds weight, it wastes bullet energy, and it heats up the barrel for no good reason. Why then are pistol barrels rifled? When the free market does something stupid for more than a year or two, you can bet it's not the free market. Yeah, it's the NFA. Under the National Firearms Act, a smoothbore pistol counts as "Any other weapon," which, among other requirements, must be at least 26 inches long. So the next time you fondle your carry pistol, which you should do on a regular basis, take a moment to reflect that your government did to it what it does to everything it touches.